Re: Clarence needs advice (was `Needing advice')
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Clarence needs advice (was `Needing advice')
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 20:41:26 -0400
In a message dated 96-08-25 17:20:04 EDT, Nameless (aka Ellen G) wrote:
>Uhm, one needs to have some sense of proportion in describing
>`severe weather'...what are you - USDA Zone 5,6 or 7?
Well, Ellen, "All is transitory in this drifting world" (a famous Japanese
poem!), and much is relative, including climates. My climate in Northern
Virginia (northern edge of zone 7) is quite severe when compared to much of
Califorinia and the Oregon and Washington coastal regions. It is certainly
mild when comparison is made to the climates of eastern States north of the
Mason-Dixon Line (with the exception of the Atlantic coast all the way up to
Conn.)
In writing about the elegant but tender rose "Mermaid", Henry Mitchell once
noted that it could not be grown successfully in most areas north of
Washington, D.C. He then asserted that this single fact should prompt all
gardeners north of Washington to move south! Does this give you any ideas?
:)
Clarence Mahan in VA (who has failed with "Mermaid" twice!---but then in the
DC, where Henry gardened, winter temperatures are about 10 degrees warmer
than where I live...12 minutes from Georgetown!)
